Obs.–1 [ad. L. sōlstitium: see prec. and cf. SOLSTATION.] Solstice.
c. 1391. Chaucer, Astrolabe, I. § 17. In this heued of cancer is the grettest declinacioun northward of the sonne, & ther-for is he cleped the Solsticioun of somer.
